AN INTENSIVE SUCCESS.
A very notable experiment in intensifying production fro the land has begun to achieve economic success in Berkshire in the very county where so many acres have relapsed prairie or worse. At the remote village of Kingston-Bagp some fine fields of hops are now being harvested. The orcha looked at least as good as any in Kent, but this, so far as know, is the first attempt in our annals to introduce the crop Berkshire. A new sort of hop-drying plant has been built vn the latest improvements. Somewhere about 1,000 acres o land that had been degenerating pitiably are improving und a system of the very highest farming. In addition to su intensive crops as hops (they cost somewhere about £1 per acre), as strawberries and potatoes, the ordinary fa crops are producing in some cases more than double previous yield. The whole experiment, in general and detail, is worth the attention of landowners, farmers an indeed politicians.
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